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The Broom Corn Review from Wichita, Kansas • 5

The Broom Corn Review from Wichita, Kansas • 5

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Wichita, Kansas
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5
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5 THE BROOM CORN REVIEW M7E have 25 cars of new broom corn, that will run common to choice, awaiting your inspection. Also a full line of broom supplies and machinery. Write, wire or call. Central States Broom Corn Co. FRONT AND MILL STREETS CINCINNATI, OHIO BOUGHT BROOM FACTORY.

left tonight for Washington to confer with the Interstate Comerce FEEL THE DYESTUFF SHORTAGE. Plymouth, Illinois. Tom Bickford and Clyde Groves have closed a deal with John Myers whereby they become the owners of the broom corn factory. Besides the manufacturing of good brooms they will also buy old junk, such as iron, zinc, rags, etc. Mr.

Beckford has been in the employee of Mr. Myers since he opened up the broom factory, therefore he thoroughly understands the business. FEED VALUES OF BROOMCORN SEED. What is the feeding value of broom corn seed compared with kafir or milo? What is the feeding value of Sudan grass compared with alfalfa? We have no definite information as to the feeding value of broom corn seed but if it is not musty and is ground before feeding and fed along with kafir or milo maize, its feeding value is probably to as much as these grains. The 'ceding value of Sudan grass is very similar to that of sorghum cane and entirely different from alfalfa.

The feeding value of alfalfa is practically the same as of wheat. Washington, Feb. 23. Consular dispatches received here today told how Great Britain, as well as the United States, is feeling the pinch of a dyestuffs shortage. Prices are soaring as vast quantities of goods are accumulating to be dyed, the reports said.

WILL START A FACTORY. KEPT OLD "DOBBIN BUSY. Jacksonville, Texas. F. M.

Newton, who has ben operating a broom factory at Manghum, for several years, has located in Jacksonville and will open a broom factory here at an early date, which will result in the planting of a considerable acreage to broom corn. FARMERS SEEK FEDERAL AID. EAST HAS WESTS FREIGHT CARS Syracuse, Kan. W. H.

Nivers of the extreme northwest part of Hamilton county harvested this year six tons of broom corn, a couple of hundred bushels of field corn, eight or ten bushels of pop corn, and several tons of millet, besides some other crops. Four tons of the brush he has marketed at $70 per ton, and is selling his feed and grain to his neighbors. All his farming was done with one horse and his own labor. An eastern farmer who passed his place last fall and saw his large crop said that he had raised more crop with one horse than the farmers could with four in the east. Resolutions favoring the enactment of federal law to provide a marketing system free from trusts and not dominated by speculation were adopted by the National Farmers Association which ended a 3-day convention at Kansas City, this week.

The resolution also commended the stand taken by Congress for an investigation of the packing industry, and favored the passags of a Rural Credits Act. New York, Feb. 23. Abnormal export trade of the Eastern states due to enormous orders for war materials and provisions from European countries, has resulted in the Eastern railroads detaining thousands, according to F. H.

Funk, a member of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission, who Our New Location Will be 1300 and 1302 North Main St. This is a large and lighter building. Can show you broom corn, supplies and machinery to better advantage. American Broom Supply Co. SI.

Louis, Mo. PANHANDLE WAREHOUSE CO. AMARILLO, TEXAS The Great Southwestern Railway Center Full Concentration and Storing Privileges Low Rates Rrnnin Corn Dealers Pioneers In via Galveston Krooin 11,111 This Territory In Just a Few Years Our Tributary Local Delivering Points Have Grown to be Recognized Among the Leading in Quality as well as Quantity. INVESTIGATE.

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